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428 SIR JOHN BOILEAU'S COLLECTION. Letter XXXII.
think correctly, to be the statue of a Roman prince, represented
under the form of that demigod. This work is of very good style
and delicate execution, and is well preserved in the principal parts.
Two busts of Emperors, one of them a Nero.
I now proceed to the pictures.
Sano di Pietro.—A miracle from the legends of St. Clara.
A genuine and good little picture by this mediocre Sienese master.
Fra Filippo Lippi.—The story of Jupiter and Calisto ; treated
with great naivete. I consider this to be a slight work of this
master.
Holbein.—Portrait of Anne Boleyn : bust-picture, inscribed
with the monogram of the master, and " Anna Regina, 1530."
The features differ somewhat from the other portraits of this
Queen, it is much defaced by broad cracks in the flesh parts,
and in the green ground.
Francois Clouet, called Janet.—Portrait of Jean d'Albret,
King of Navarre and father of Henry IV. of France. Animated
and careful.
Lo Spagnoletto.—-The Adoration of the Shepherds. The
Virgin is very noble for him ; the Child is the least satisfactory.
Upon the whole, one of his best pictures.
Lancret.—A pretty family picture, of particularly warm tone
for this painter.
De Vries.—A pleasing landscape.
Williams.—A landscape which is especially attractive for the
effect of the warm evening light.
Nothing could exceed the active kindness with which Sir John
Boileau promoted my desire to visit the principal objects of art
in Norfolk, sometimes introducing me himself to the proprietors
of such, far and near, and sometimes obtaining admission for me
by letters of introduction.
At Intwood, in the neighbourhood of Ketteringham, the seat of
Joseph Muskett, Esq., I saw one of Hondekoeter's largest and
finest poultry-pieces, and a pleasing picture by William Van de
Velde.
From various accounts I had received of the treasures contained
at Narford, the seat of Andrew Fountaine, Esq., I was most eager
to visit it. But the same unlucky star which had presided over
some few other places I had visited in England accompanied me
also here. On one occasion Mr. Fountaine had just left for
think correctly, to be the statue of a Roman prince, represented
under the form of that demigod. This work is of very good style
and delicate execution, and is well preserved in the principal parts.
Two busts of Emperors, one of them a Nero.
I now proceed to the pictures.
Sano di Pietro.—A miracle from the legends of St. Clara.
A genuine and good little picture by this mediocre Sienese master.
Fra Filippo Lippi.—The story of Jupiter and Calisto ; treated
with great naivete. I consider this to be a slight work of this
master.
Holbein.—Portrait of Anne Boleyn : bust-picture, inscribed
with the monogram of the master, and " Anna Regina, 1530."
The features differ somewhat from the other portraits of this
Queen, it is much defaced by broad cracks in the flesh parts,
and in the green ground.
Francois Clouet, called Janet.—Portrait of Jean d'Albret,
King of Navarre and father of Henry IV. of France. Animated
and careful.
Lo Spagnoletto.—-The Adoration of the Shepherds. The
Virgin is very noble for him ; the Child is the least satisfactory.
Upon the whole, one of his best pictures.
Lancret.—A pretty family picture, of particularly warm tone
for this painter.
De Vries.—A pleasing landscape.
Williams.—A landscape which is especially attractive for the
effect of the warm evening light.
Nothing could exceed the active kindness with which Sir John
Boileau promoted my desire to visit the principal objects of art
in Norfolk, sometimes introducing me himself to the proprietors
of such, far and near, and sometimes obtaining admission for me
by letters of introduction.
At Intwood, in the neighbourhood of Ketteringham, the seat of
Joseph Muskett, Esq., I saw one of Hondekoeter's largest and
finest poultry-pieces, and a pleasing picture by William Van de
Velde.
From various accounts I had received of the treasures contained
at Narford, the seat of Andrew Fountaine, Esq., I was most eager
to visit it. But the same unlucky star which had presided over
some few other places I had visited in England accompanied me
also here. On one occasion Mr. Fountaine had just left for